For the umpteenth week in succession, the weather remains the biggest outdoors-ish news. It’s cool being so mild, albeit weird to think about donning short sleeves during traditionally the coldest days of the year. And this week might be the weirdest of all, with air temp highs forecasted to surpass 60 degrees, daily, up to Saturday – when a fairly…

There were olden days when wars were fought over salt. Only the rich had the stuff. Marie Antoinette lost her head after she declared, of the poor, “Let them eat salt” -- though that “salt” was quickly changed to “cake” when it was slowly explained to the airy young blond French queen that it was actually only the rich who had salt, ergo, it might be better to suggest the poor eat, say, “cake.” Atta girl. Now…

Saturday, February 11, 2012: Winter just can’t win this year, especially along the coast. Minor snow dustings are the best it can muster. Suits me fine. I actually got some nice outdoors time today – between jobs. I metal detected and found a fairly nice 1848 half dollar at a spot where I had found a 1737 half cent last week.

I had a couple folks send me the news report from up Deal way where surf fishermen are still catching keeper bass – on plugs. If you didn’t see the…

Last week, I verbally pussyfooted through the feral cat predicament in Harvey Cedars, as much to stir the readership pot as to actually address the issue. The latest polls show my readership took a bit of a drop from just over 22 million readers down to approximately 9 – and most of those are in Rahway Prison.

I had fully expected the feralists to rabidly and rapidly respond. Instead, I got dumped on by the…

Wow, there’s life out there. This past week I got a goodly slew of emails, blog-mails, and chatments (comments picked up while chatting with angling and non-so folks, often at church). Much of this week’s admittedly ambulatory column is thusly derived.

Keep those card and letters coming. Just don’t send any alerts. And what’s up with all this alert madness? There are those nearly nonstop “Silver Alerts” on highway digital signs, whereby we’re alerted to look for oldening Jersey…